GrouchyGrouse

Because they hate curds.

Ba dum tssh

Break glass in case you need to feel a little bit of those tankie feels

Technically this song is not from Macross but it's a banger and the animation is from the 1984 movie "Macross: Do You Remember Love?" I'll tell you what I do love. All that dang hand drawn animation and the warmth and color it has. This video is a nice bite sized example. Hope y'all like it.

I know I'm a bit late to the party so forgive me if anyone has already brought this up. This is the observation that always bothered me the most. I watched tower 2 get hit on live TV. The news anchors were going nuts describing the events like something out of Orson Welles' infamous radio play edition of War of the Worlds. They tried to keep a somber and serious tone but there was an excitement in their voices as they vividly described fire, smoke, and chaos.

Do you remember that brief moment when the media called it the "World Trade Center Attack?" The abbreviation 'WTC' started to take over. You were assumed to already know what it stood for by that time. Get with the program.

Then that, too, started to change. It stopped being about where it happened. It started being about when it happened.

"On this day, September the Eleventh," intones Dan Rather.

September the Eleventh. All the anchors picked it up. It was like every single one of these media ghouls was trying to ape the infamous FDR speech about Pearl Harbor. They'd found juicier meat than some silly radio play about Martians. I was one of those insufferable WWII teens at the time so I heard that little dog whistle. "A day that will live in infamy" was right on the tips of their tongues. They all wanted to say it even though they knew it was corny. But they all wanted to have that moment.

The day wasn't over yet they were memorializing it. It already had an anniversary. September Eleventh.

Eventually it was just 9/11. "Nine-eleven." It was like some advertising hobgoblin had noticed that if you put a 1 next to a 1 it looked like the WTC towers. 9/11. They had long since dropped the 2001 part. Who cares what year it is. You're already supposed to know that part. We already told you. It was 9/11.

Music from The Shining starts to get louder. The twin towers meet in the bathroom of the Overlook Hotel. They start to argue over who the Caretaker is.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

I like to keep it positive when it comes to other people. But I can be very hard on myself. I don't know why I do it. I guess I'm depressed. Normally I use humor as a coping mechanism but that's not really working right now.

I haven't really been posting here much lately. I just couldn't get the energy to log on or even have an idea worth sharing. But I do really like this place and I want to share some positive energy because I'm tired of feeling destructive. So, hey, you reading this, I like you. You are valuable. You are worth something to yourself and others. I guess this is kind of an "imposition" because I'm asking you to be happy when I'm not. But it will make me happy to know you are okay. I care about you all. I'm just feeling down and the only thing I ever had that picked me up was other people. I can't do it on my own, despite my stubborness insisting I can. I guess that's why I was always inclined towards socialism; I knew I couldn't go it alone and caring for other people was the only way I could legitimately care about myself. "Rational self interest" and all that jazz.

So, hey, if you're going through something, or you know somebody going through something, you can reply in this thread or DM me. I'm not a licensed therapist or anything like that but maybe it would help if you just typed out a few words, as I am doing right now. Helps keep the thoughts in order.

The internet is the worst place ever created but it's places like Hexbear that somewhat redeem this whole sorry enterprise. I have seen so much care and kindness here. Y'all give me hope. I'm kinda ranting but I just wanted you to know that after 3 years this was the only place I could go to where I could tell my dumb jokes and indulge in serious conversation about theory and politics without bad faith. It's nice! And it's refreshing. Keep doing what you're doing.

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